{"id":2805,"date":"2015-07-02T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=2805"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:55:02","slug":"20-2-on-anthropomorphism","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/20-2-on-anthropomorphism\/","title":{"rendered":"20.2 On Anthropomorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Anthropomorphism<\/em>\u00a0concerns itself with performances and artworks that explore the complex of interesting and mutually contradictory ideas located under the umbrella term, \u2018anthropomorphism\u2019. On the one hand, it is used to refer to something that resembles a human, and on the other hand it refers to our natural tendency to read human characteristics in the non-human object or animal. Moreover, an interrogation of the concept of anthropomorphism, especially as it is found in contemporary performance, suggests that there is not a singular line dividing the human from the non-human but a vast terrain that houses the comical, the uncanny and the abject. The aim of this issue is to elucidate anthropomorphism in its multitude of aspects, thereby shedding light on discourses around object theatre and ecological performance that attempt to understand the more-than-human world in a way that goes beyond \u2018mere\u2019 anthropomorphism.<\/p>\n

Encountering Anthropomorphism
\nRichard Allen, Shaun May<\/p>\n

Death and the anthropomorphic life of objects in performance : Marina Abramovi\u0107\u2019s Nude with Skeleton and other animations
\nJungmin Song<\/p>\n

Ephemeral Animation [artist\u2019s pages]
\nNenagh Watson<\/p>\n

CREW\u2019s O_REX (2007) and Nicole Beutler\u2019s Antigone (2012) : Composite bodies of resistance
\nChristel Stalpaert<\/p>\n

A house of weather and a polar bear costume : Ecological anthropomorphism in the work of Fevered Sleep
\nLisa Woynarski<\/p>\n

Guddling About : Experiments in vital materialism with particular regard to water [artist\u2019s pages]
\nMinty Donald<\/p>\n

The critical aesthetics of performing objects \u2013 Kris Verdonck
\nKristof Van Baarle<\/p>\n

Annotating Room 14 of Mira Schendel at the Tate Modern : In sometey b In some they become the cloud [artist\u2019s pages]
\nPenny Newell<\/p>\n

Enmeshed bodies, impossible touch : The object-oriented world of Pina Bausch\u2019s Caf\u00e9 M\u00fcller
\nJo\u00e3o Flor\u00eancio<\/p>\n

The \u2018uncanny valley\u2019 and spectating animated objects
\nJames R. Hamilton<\/p>\n

Digital anthropomorphism : Performers avatars and chat-bots
\nAneta Stojni\u0107<\/p>\n

\u2018Ceremonious ape!\u2019 : Creaturely poetics and anthropomorphic acts
\nJoseph Anderton<\/p>\n

Reflections on Dear Mick Jagger \u2026 [artist\u2019s pages]
\nFfion Jones<\/p>\n

Animals and angels : A scene of abjection in Lush\u2019s shop window in Regent Street
\nCatherine Rosario<\/p>\n

Hiroshi Sugimoto and the photography of theatre
\nKevin Riordan<\/p>\n

Encountering the spectre of painting [artist\u2019s pages]
\nJames Fisher<\/p>\n

Fifty years since Carolee Schneemann\u2019s Meat Joy (1964) (review)
\nHarriet Curtis<\/p>\n\n\n